CDP News: Aug. 26, 2016

CDP News: Aug. 26, 2016

Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. It’s hard to believe that we’re getting close to the end of August already. It seems like summer just started and now Labor Day is just around the corner.

Next Tuesday, we’ll be holding our first online “refresher” course for Prolonged Exposure therapy training. This half-day course is designed to provide a brief overview of our two-day EBP training and expand upon some of the treatment techniques covered in the original course. Participants do not have to have previously attended a CDP-led training, as long as they realize this is not a complete training on PE. We’ll also be holding more of these refresher courses on additional topics going forward, including suicide prevention, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. You can visit our Upcoming Training calendar for dates and details on all of these courses.

Speaking of upcoming events, registration is currently available for our next online Prolonged Exposure (PE) training on 20-21 September. Sign-ups will begin next week for our two-day suicide prevention training to be held 12-13 October. Both of these events will be held via Second Life.  If you’d like to be notified when we open registration for future online events, just complete this form and we’ll email you with information about new events as they go live.

On Tuesday we held our CDP Presents webinar for August entitled, “Helping Military Couples Enhance Connection After Deployment”. It was a very insightful presentation by the CDP’s own April Thompson. If you missed it, don’t worry! You can watch the recorded version right here in the CDP Presents section of our website. While you’re there, don’t forget to sign up for next month’s event, which will be “Brief Interventions for Suicidal Military Personnel and Veterans” to highlight the observance of Suicide Prevention Month in September. This will be led by Dr. Craig Bryant. As with most of our CDPP events, participants who attend and complete a short post-course evaluation/survey will be eligible to receive one free CE. If there are any topics you’d like to see covered in the future, please let us know and we’ll see what we can do.

This week in the CDP blog, our Staff Perspective column was by Dr. Sharon Birman, entitled “A Brief History of LGB Individuals and the Military”. This is the second part of Dr. Birman’s overview of the military’s attitudes towards lesbian, gay, and bisexual members of the military. You can also find the first part, which covered the field of psychology’s changing perspective on LGB individuals, linked to from that entry. Also, don’t forget to check out this week’s Research Update. It’s packed with all the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the Web.

That’s all for this time around. Have a great weekend everyone! We’ll see you all next Monday with a new entry in our “By the Numbers” column.

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